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Unbeaten - The Triumphs and Tragedies of Rocky Marciano (Paperback)
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Unbeaten - The Triumphs and Tragedies of Rocky Marciano (Paperback)
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Loot Price R448
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Rocky Marciano accomplished a feat that eluded legendary champions
like Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey, Muhammad Ali, and Mike Tyson: he
never lost a professional fight. When he retired in 1956, his
record was a perfect 49-0. Unbeaten is the revelatory biography of
one of the greatest heavyweights of all time. Marciano rose from
abject poverty and a life of petty crime to become heavyweight
champion and one of the most famous faces of his era. He dominated
boxing in the decade following the Second World War with a
devastating punch, which he nicknamed the `Suzie Q'. But perfection
came at a price. Pulitzer Prize-winner Mike Stanton tells the story
of Marciano's pursuit of greatness through the era of guys and
dolls, hustlers and gamblers, glamorous celebrities and notorious
mobsters. But boxing had its dark side, particularly at a time when
Mafia mob bosses like Blinky Palermo and Frankie Carbo wielded
immense power behind the scenes. Marciano retired while still in
his prime, weighed down by the mob's influence in the sport he
loved. For the last decade of his life, he wandered America,
disillusioned, untrusting, hiding his money, cheating on his wife,
consorting with the mobsters he had loathed for corrupting his
sport, until his death in a plane crash in 1969, the night before
his 46th birthday. Unbeaten by Mike Stanton is the story of a
remarkable champion, a sport that was rotten to its core, and a
country that may have expected too much from its heroes.
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